{"id":610225,"date":"2026-04-28T00:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/610225\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T00:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:11:11","slug":"nfl-announces-13-2-million-viewers-for-round-1-down-from-13-6-million-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/610225\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL announces 13.2 million viewers for Round 1, down from 13.6 million last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first round of the NFL draft drew a big TV audience, but not as big as last year.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL announced that 13.2 million viewers watched the draft on all platforms. That\u2019s a significant audience for most sporting events, but for the NFL draft it\u2019s a step backward.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s draft generated a total of 13.6 million viewers.<\/p>\n<p>The record for the most-watched first round was set in 2020 when 15.5 million viewers tuned in to a draft that was America\u2019s first big sports-related event since the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first round of the NFL draft drew a big TV audience, but not as big as last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-610225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}